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Louisiania Purchase
The Louisiania Purchase was when Thomas Jefferson bought land off of france. That land cost jefferson about 15 million dollars. The land doubled the size of the United States. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was allowing missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, and it also formed a new free state, Maine. -
Compromise of 1850
Compromise of 1850 was about letting California to enter the Union as a free state. However it did not reslove slavery. -
Kankas-Nebraska Act
The Kankas-Nebraska Act was about Senator Stephen A. Douglass introduced a bill to astablish the Kankas and Nebraska teritorries. The bill allowed white settlers in Kankas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery. Congress passed the bill, so it became an act of law , known as the Kankas-Nebraska Act.